Newsletter

Posted March 20, 2012 12:07 am

Texas and region

WACO

Authorities say a cardiac patient and three Central Texas medical personnel have been hurt after their ambulance flipped on a rain-slick highway.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says the accident happened late Sunday afternoon in Waco. DPS says the ambulance overturned during wet conditions on the road. The National Weather Service says the area had rain on Sunday.

KWTX-TV reports the ambulance was transporting a patient who had suffered a heart attack. A paramedic and two other emergency medical officials were also on board.

BRIEFLY ...

● IRVING — Hospital officials say five members of an Oklahoma family have gotten sick from apparent carbon monoxide exposure at a Dallas-area hotel. An Irving Fire Department spokesman says the incident happened Monday at the Hyatt Place in the Las Colinas district.

● KILLEEN — A man has been found dead in a burning Central Texas house. Killeen police on Monday searched for the truck and two men who allegedly stole a green Chevrolet pickup truck during a possible burglary. Police later found the truck about one mile away.

● McKINNEY — A Dallas-area kung fu instructor has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting one of his female students in 2004. Prosecutors in Collin County say 48-year-old Ricky Earl Anderson of Frisco was sentenced Friday by a jury after his conviction on charges of sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child.

● TYLER — An East Texas man has been accused of providing booze to his girlfriend’s son and the baby ended up hospitalized in critical condition.